FIRST AND LAST AMARYLLIS BULLETIN 
AUGUST, 1909 
BRIEFLY DESCRIBING BURBANK’S NEW GIANT HYBRID AMARYLLIS 
(HIPPEASTRUM HYBRIDUM) 
The genus Amaryllis contains above fifty species according to most botanists. All are classified 
as tropical South American bulbous plants, but my collectors in the Cordilleran Andes have sent me 
many beautiful dwarf hippeastrums from far south in Chile, almost to the botanically unexplored 
Patagonian forests. 
Thirty years ago my work commenced on the hippeastrums or Amaryllis, as they are more 
commonly called, and though 1 have sold from time to time the more ordinary kinds of my seedlings 
having quite large flowers to the seedsmen and florists, yet have kept the very best varieties for in¬ 
crease and to name and introduce later, and now have a good stock of each of these dis¬ 
tinct new varieties; the cream of the hundreds of thousands which have been 
raised during all these years. 
All florists, both European and American, who have seen these new ones on 
my Santa Rosa grounds when in bloom, agree that they are on the whole the 
finest in existence anywhere without exception. 
This rare collection is now, for the first time, offered==each variety with 
complete control including all the bulbs in existence. In other words, the varieties are 
sold very much as a patent is—the purchaser has absolute control of the varieties purchased. 
It would give me great pleasure to introduce these at retail, but it is impossible on account of the 
time and attention required. This will be the last opportunity ever offered to purchase 
this collection or any part of it. Nearly everybody knows of it, but no one poses- 
ses a single bulb of any variety of this whole collection, though I have sold the more 
ordinary varieties to the florists for many years. 
These bulbs are Winter bloomers and are best moved during the Fall and early winter, before 
strong growth commences. They make enormous bulbs, enormous flowers and generally multiply 
much more rapidly by offsets than any of the ordinary Amaryllis. The lasting qualities of this new 
strain is remarkable. The flowers when cut often lasting in perfecricn for ten or twelve days. 
The descriptions are brief, but accurate, and the bulbs will produce the flowers as 
described or even much better, if well cared for. This list is terse as it has been 
prepared when other duties required attention. 
The nominal price for which each of these new varieties can be purchased is added. All, 
without reserve, are now for the first time available. The number of bulbs mentioned 
with each variety embraces the large older bulbs and the offsets which have appeared above ground 
at this time. Usually there are several or many bulblets and small bulbs which have not appeared 
at the surface. 
